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Grant Writing and the Perfect Storytelling

Tech Soup

Evening meals sometimes went on for hours as we continued our storytelling. When I began writing proposals, storytelling was the only way I knew to convey the problems my organization faced and what we were doing to overcome those problems. But storytelling still plays a prominent role in all requests that I write.

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News Media: Take Responsibility for Your Influence

Have Fun - Do Good

Browsing the headlines on The New York Times , CNN , USA Today , and Google News'' sites is one long litany of horror: Murder. We need to document moments of despair and of hope. It''s time for the news media to take responsibility for its profound influence as the storyteller of our time. I''m tired of the news. Selfishness.

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10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause

Have Fun - Do Good

About 100,000 new weblogs were created each day According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project report, "Bloggers: A Portrait of the Internet’s New Storytellers" from July 2006: 8% of Internet users, or about 12 million American adults, keep a blog. Today, the blogosphere is doubling in size approximately every 230 days.

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Why Social Movements Need Stories

Tech Soup

Storytelling can be a powerful tool for good. Simple Storytelling Solutions and the Arab Spring. The Arab Spring also demonstrated that storytelling doesn’t need a big budget or tons of editing time to be effective. Likewise, Twitter can be a powerful and relatively easy-to-use storytelling tool.

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10 Best Practices for Planning Successful Crowd Funding or Giving Day Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Successful crowd funding depends on great storytelling. Now matter which type of story you choose to tell or what medium you use (video, text, photos), here is a simple storytelling structure you can use to create the first draft of your story: Once upon a time…. 8: Document what you learned for your next campaign.

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The Best Social Media Marketing Resources For Nonprofits

Nonprofits Source

San Diego Humane Society documented the rescue of #92Yorkies on Facebook Live, which kicked-off a major online fundraising campaign. Charity: Water is leveraging Facebook advertising in a big way by using storytelling to raise awareness of the global water crisis and inspire people to give. Facebook Advertising.

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How To Convince Leadership Content Marketing For Nonprofits Matters

Nonprofits Source

Seeing as humans have the attention span less than that of a goldfish , you may need the extra time to focus on storytelling. This article does so well because: The headline entices a positive emotion from readers. If you don’t have a robots.txt file, you can create a basic text document with the appropriate label.

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